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Satyricon : Hackett Classics - Petronius

Satyricon

By: Petronius, Sarah Ruden (Translator)

Paperback | 1 March 2000

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One of the great works of world literature, Satyricon has remained popular since ancient times. The Roman dandy Petronius was the "arbiter of elegance" to Nero, and was driven to suicide by false charges of treason. His great work, the Satyricon, of which only fragments survive, was a picaresque fiction satirizing contemporary behavior and parodying forms of literature. The story details the peregrinations and misfortunes, literary, gustatory, and obscene, of a homosexual scholar tramp doomed to impotence by the wrath of Priapus. The book shares much in common with Joyce's Ulysses, and hundreds of authors have been influenced by its form and subject, often attempting to rewrite it and adapt it to other forms, such as Federico Fellini's film of the same name.
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[Ruden] has caught, better than any translator known to me, both the conversational patterns of Petronian dialogue and the camera-sharp specificity and color of the Satyricon's descriptive passages. . . . A quite extraordinary achievement against heavy odds. --Peter Green, The Los Angeles Times Book Review Relying on. . . her excellent knowledge of Latin, her lively feel for contemporary slang and rhythm, and her infectious love of the work, [Ruden] gives us the full Satyricon ; she shows us a man making a comic masterpiece out of Neronian chaos. . . . Her book as a whole, breathing knowledge and affection, is a delight. --Donald Lyons, The New Criterion This is a really useful volume which can readily be recommended as a set text to students. The ten commentaries at the end are judicious overviews of important topics connected with the work and the suggestions for further reading are up-to-date and intelligent. --Susanna Morton Braund, Yale University

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